News this week
Visitors to EMEC found travel arrangements somewhat difficult this week – as did you all in the South! However, weather often disrupts events here in Orkney and we are perhaps a little more sanguine about things not happening when we want them to! Prevented from visiting this week were Alex Reid and Alison Hunt from Read More »
Seabed Archaeology
“GIS reconstruction of the shoreline around Orkney about 10,000 years ago using existing palaeo-shoreline data and bathymetry. This shows the potential extent of submerged land. Reconstruction courtesy of Alistair Dawson (Aberdeen) and Richard Bates (St Andrews)” Seabed Archaeology: The Rising Tide Project in Orkney CR Wickham-Jones (University of Aberdeen) and Sue Dawson (University of Dundee) Read More »
News this week
First of all, apologies to anyone who has had difficulty contacting EMEC by phone this week or been cut off mid conversation! We have been experiencing problems with our phone system hardware. Thanks to the efforts of our Maintenance Technician this should be resolved on Wednesday next week. Upgrade works at Black Craig lookout point Read More »
Standards update
EMEC is pleased to announce the publication of the following four documents: Assessment of Tidal Energy Resource Guidelines for Grid Connection of Marine Energy Conversion Systems Guidelines for Marine Energy Converter Certification Schemes Guidelines for Reliability, Maintainability and Survivability of Marine Energy Conversion Systems These documents, published by British Standards Institution (BSI), are the latest Read More »
News this week
Visitors to EMEC this week began in earnest. On Monday January 12, we were pleased to welcome Rodolfo Mendez, Manager of RyQ an engineering consulting company in Chile. Accompanied by his colleague Elizabeth they visited Billia Croo and the office in Stromness. On Thursday 15 January, three members of ESB International, Dublin – James Tedd, Read More »
Funding announcement
ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE UNVEILS FIRST PROJECTS TO BENEFIT FROM £1.1 BILLION INITIATIVE Funding for world-class consortia to help ensure UK meets Energy & Climate Change targets FOUR innovative projects aimed at supporting the achievement of the UK’s challenging targets for the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions were given the go ahead today (January 13) as Read More »
News this week
Like most folk in the UK, EMEC have been busy getting down to business following the Christmas break. We wish all who read our website the very best wishes for 2009 and our developers a very successful year of testing in our test sites. Despite cold weather in most areas of the country this week, Read More »
